retrancher
Meaning
- (transitive) to deduct, take away, cut out (delete)
- (intransitive) to cut down
- (transitive) to cut off (exclude, from e.g. society)
- (archaic, transitive) to kill, to snuff out, to bump off
- (reflexive) to take shelter
- (reflexive) to entrench oneself
Concepts
Synonyms
mettre au ban de la société
mettre en quarantaine
frapper d’ostracisme
Translations
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/
Etymology
From re- + trancher.
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